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Claire McCaskill: “There was not an effort to pass the ACA because all of us were trying to make people's lives miserable.”

On the recordJune 26, 2018
There was not an effort to pass the ACA because all of us were trying to make people's lives miserable.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

McCaskill emphasizes the intent behind passing the ACA was to improve lives, not to cause hardship.

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